The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of August 11, 2022

Abstract Design

c. 1926

designed by

Gregory Brown

(British, 1887-1941)

manufacturer

Foxton, Ltd.

(British)

England, 20th century

Hand block printed on linen

Overall: 366.4 x 128.3 cm (144 1/4 x 50 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.563

Location

not on view

Description

This textile reflects the abstracted patterning popular in Vienna before the First World War and persisting into the early 1920s. After its inclusion in the 1925 Paris exposition, this panel traveled with the subsequent exhibition of works from the fair and was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1926.

Citations
American Association of Museums. A Selected Collection of Objects from the International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Art at Paris 1925. [Washington, D.C.]: [American Association of Museums?], 1925. p. 17, no. 146 (?)
Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, and Emily Marshall Orr. The jazz age: American style in the 1920s. 2017. Reproduced: cat. 49, p. 330
Exhibition history

International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Art, March 1926--Organized by the American Association of Museums; the exhibition was in Paris in 1925 and in Cleveland in March 1926.

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (April 7-August 20, 2017); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1926.563